Author Topic: Ultimate Concert Double-Bill? (Read 481 times)

bassman68 · « **Reply #15 on:** November 25, 2007, 11:46:55 AM »

Scrub that..
Make that the Who '75 when John got his first Alembics....

jacko · « **Reply #16 on:** November 25, 2007, 11:47:15 AM »

I once saw Chris Rea open for Lindisfarne at Newcastle's city hall and if I'm not mistaken, Yes opened for cream at their (cream's) farewell concert at the albert hall.

In my dream gig, Kate Bush opens for Big Tuna ;-)

Graeme

white_cloud · « **Reply #17 on:** November 25, 2007, 11:52:31 AM »

Yes and Cream...thats hard to beat!!

How about Return to forever followed by weather report?? Stanley and Jaco on one bill!

P.s. Graeme Im married to a Kate bush lookalike

white_cloud · « **Reply #18 on:** November 25, 2007, 12:03:10 PM »

Only thing is she cant sing

lbpesq · « **Reply #19 on:** November 25, 2007, 12:38:55 PM »

Hey, I almost forgot about one I saw that is arguably the ultimate Alembic-related double bill:

The Grateful Dead open for The Who
Oakland Coliseum, 1976

Bill, tgo

811952 · « **Reply #20 on:** November 25, 2007, 01:33:04 PM »

Kate Bush and anybody!

John

2400wattman · « **Reply #21 on:** November 25, 2007, 11:16:12 PM »

How about U2 opening for Talas(Billy Sheehan's Buffalo,N.Y. band for those who don't know) in '82(I think, the year that is). There is audio on Billy's website with Bono mentioning the first time they came to America and opened for them.
Primus opening for Rush, they did four songs...guess why.

hydrargyrum · « **Reply #22 on:** November 26, 2007, 04:42:41 AM »

I'm pretty jealous of the Tom Waits show Bill (of course, I still hadn't been born yet in 1975 .

I would have loved to catch Beck with the Flaming Lips (although I hear they didn't get along very well).

bigbadbill · « **Reply #23 on:** November 26, 2007, 05:18:42 AM »

Skydigger, I'm seriously liking your choices, particularly the second one!

This is really tough actually; any two of the following:

Yes circa Yessongs, Hawkwind circa Space Ritual (in fact they'd be top), Floyd circa Wish You Were Here, Genesis circa Seconds Out, Camel circa Moonmadness, Return to Forever/Stanley circa the Brown Album, Deep Purple circa Made in Japan or even Made in Europe.....RHCPs should be in there but I've seen them several times so I'd be more keen to see people I haven't already seen/never saw at their peak. And yes, Kate Bush would be great! If I had to narrow it down to 2, probably Hawkwind/Space Ritual and Genesis/Seconds Out, although how they'd sound together I dread to think. RHCPs and Bow Wow Wow would be a great double bill.

I'd also have loved to have seen Fleetwood Mac around the time of Rumours for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is a young Stevie Nicks *sigh*. The Mac are still the best band I've ever seen actually.

There are probably others I've forgotten....my favourite Metal bill would be Motorhead circa Bomber with Manowar circa Sign of the Hammer....Spinal Tap on steroids!

bigbadbill · « **Reply #24 on:** November 26, 2007, 05:22:05 AM »

Actually my dream gig would include Hot Gossip from around '78-80, but that would have nothing at all to do with music and everything to do with Donna Fielding...

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flaxattack · « **Reply #25 on:** November 26, 2007, 05:41:25 AM »

hey bill
i was at the 8.1.73 show also
from left field
china crisis opening for squeeze at a small club in nyc,
the killer opener band was rockpile with dave edmunds and nick lowe
saw them open for blondie at central park and van morrison at the palladium- neither second act was as good as they were, van walked off after 30 minutes claiming the sound system sucked
little feat opening for the dead
sting opening for the dead- feh-lol
herbie hancock opening for john mclauglin at bklyn college.

funkyjazzjunky · « **Reply #26 on:** November 26, 2007, 06:48:14 AM »

Bootsy's Rubber Band followed by Sly and the Family Stone, then Parliament Funkedelic

cozmik_cowboy · « **Reply #27 on:** November 26, 2007, 07:28:21 AM »

Fantasy: Quicksilver opening for the Dead; Allman Bros. opening for the Dead (yes, I know both of those happened multiple times, but I wasn't there, so it's fantasy to me); Another Time Another Place-era Fever Tree opening for Umma Gumma-era Floyd.
Reality: New Grass Revival opening for John Hartford; Vanessa Davis Band opening for the Neville Bros.; VDB w/The Nighthawks; VDB w/Roomfull of Blues (I was working for Vanessa at the time & did monitors for both acts on all of these - maybe the best days I ever had at work in my life!)

Peter

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skydigger · « **Reply #28 on:** November 26, 2007, 09:44:28 AM »

Sound wise and for a wicked rock show. The best I saw was Blind Melon opening up for Lenny Kravitz on Halloween '94 in Vancouver.

We got to the show a few songs late and it being Halloween, the boys in BM were dressed up like women (except Shannon Hoon who somehow managed to get on stage in his tighty whity underwear). i turned to my buddy and said, I bet before the end of the show those underwear are coming off.

Sure enough a few songs later a drunken Hoon fell down on stage and one of the guitarists ran across the stage and yoink! off came the underwear.

Shannon continued to sing and proceeded to piss like a racehorse off the front of the stage!

Hoon got arrested after the show and Lenny's band came out and rocked hard.

Fans were lighting off fireworks INSIDE Pacific Coliseum during the show. Lenny says, were gonna burn this place down!

It was truly a classic rock concert that would be a pretty rare experience these days.

funkyjazzjunky · « **Reply #29 on:** November 26, 2007, 02:11:12 PM »

Did any of you see Marcus Miller open for George Duke/Stanley Clark last summer?

Author Topic: Ultimate Concert Double-Bill? (Read 481 times)

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